This session will provide the latest news related to ELA/Reading education in Texas. Participants will receive up-to-date information about resources for students and teachers including an update about OnTRACK lessons for students and Write for Texas, the state’s professional development for secondary teachers.
Take your instruction to the next level and fall in love with your job! This laugh-out-loud session inspires and reminds teachers of the little things that make a huge difference. Exciting new ideas for management and relationships, planning instruction, personal growth, reigniting passion, and more! Door prizes and joy, guaranteed!
Instead of telling students how we want something done, we can work to have them become experts who identify the critical attributes of their own products and create and critique their own work, resulting in increased critical analysis and creativity in the English classroom.
How do young writers decide what to revise? How do we shepherd them through this process of discovering, thinking, risking, and changing? Sentence combining using the DRAFT method mirrors the actions writers do and the decisions they make when they revise. Come explore new ideas and lessons from Jeff and Debbie's new book Revision Decisions (Stenhouse, 2014).
Three book lovers come together to book talk the best books of the past, present, and maybe even the future!
All aboard! Ride along as we explore ways to engage K-3 students in informational text reading, research, visual representation, and writing. You will leave with a practical toolkit of research-based ideas for your classroom. An extensive handout describing the strategies and a bibliography of helpful resources will be provided.
